3 month ago
Andy Baio : Jason Louv argues that 4chan is the future of human consciousness - a dystopic take, but there's some truth in here, especially related to attention
deusx : Lost in the Filth Simulacrum | h+ Magazine - "Yet what the media has failed to grasp is what 4chan can tell us about where we're headed. The Chans aren't the freak sideshow of the Internet. They are the heart and soul of the Internet. And they are the ones furthest ahead of the pack,
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25 month ago
deusx : Rudy’s Blog » Blog Archive » Fundamental Limits to Virtual Reality - "Matter, just as it is, carries out outlandishly complex chaotic quantum computations just by sitting around. Matter isn’t dumb. Every particle everywhere everywhen is computing at the maximum possible rate. I think we tend to very seriously underv
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31 month ago
deusx : His Heart Whirs Anew - washingtonpost.com - "If you find yourself embodied in a different way, your perceptions and awareness of the world would be changed."
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35 month ago
deusx : Why Google Is Making Us Dumber - "Let’s face it: we’re not exactly becoming brighter by using Google. In fact, in the traditional education sense, we’re getting stupider, at least with certain types of tasks."
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deusx : Open the Future: Augmented Fluid Intelligence - "These kinds of bots -- attention filters, perhaps, or focus assistants -- are likely to become important parts of how we handle our daily lives."
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deusx : 3pointD.com � Blog Archive � Vernor Vinge Paints the Future at AGC - "Think back to that time, what would it be like to be the first human to ever tell a joke, or the first storyteller. Anything you did would be new — and the fact that it was crap wouldn’t matter."
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46 month ago
Andy Baio : Slate on athletes using LASIK as performance enhancer - is surgical eye enhancement a form of cheating?
deusx : If steroids are cheating, why isn't LASIK? By William Saletan - "If the andro that helped McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998 was an unnatural, game-altering enhancement, what about his high-powered contact lenses?"
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46 month ago
deusx : Defense Tech: Set Cammos to Vibrate - "In other words, it may soon be possible for budding Bene Gesserits, with appropriate training, to receive volumes of material via the sensitive parts of the body."
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46 month ago
deusx : articles : Upload Your Life Now - Jim Baen's Universe - "Everything I've described is possible today, and a lot of it is going on right now in the MyLifeBits project."
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46 month ago
deusx : The next big bang: Man meets machine | CNET News.com - "research on multiple fronts in digital technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology may, over the next half century, alter the way we think about computers and information, and our relationship to them"
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46 month ago
deusx : Toward Immortality: The Social Burden of Longer Lives - Yahoo! News - "Notions about marriage, family and work will change in fundamental ways, they say, as will attitudes toward the young and the old."
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47 month ago
deusx : - The great Singularity debate | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com - "aturday morning at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. All 12 panelists for the day are seated in order of their scheduled presentations, with an audience of at least a thousand seated in the Memorial Auditorium on campus."
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56 month ago
deusx : Fibreculture: First tape, Interview Between Doug Engelbart & Belinda Barnet, 10th Nov, 1999 - "Do you want to be locked into tricycles because they're easy to learn?"
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deusx : Future Hi: I worry about the Singularity sometimes. - "My biggest worry in the Singularity is total dissolution"
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66 month ago
deusx : WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: What Would Radical Longevity Mean? - What happens once you catch the leading edge of longevity advances?
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